On 09/26/2011 06:56 PM, dave boland wrote: > I can get gmane to list all of the subscribed LO newsgroups and it > contains all of the messages in this thread. Not sure how that > happened, but... I'm not able to post to the group though, so this is > of no value to me until I can. > > If posting instructions works for all of you then I'm ok with it, but I > still think regular newsgroups are a better idea for almost everyone > (though some obviously disagree). > > I'm still not sure why Linux distributions like Ubuntu would use regular > newsgroups, but a major player like LO won't. I think this question > needs a good answer.
They don't. alt.os.linux.ubuntu isn't in *any way* related to any Ubuntu list, group, forum et al. If you read the usenet charter it was simply started by folks that wanted a usenet group. Ubuntu user lists are available via gmane.org at: gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, as are nearly all the other Ubuntu lists: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ There's your answer. ... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
